vexations Archive

Hannity’s Innanity


This past Friday, against my better judgment, I found myself listening to talk radio again. I was on my way out of town and wanted the frequent traffic reports to avoid any significant delays in getting out of the city. In between traffic reports, I endured Sean Hannity vapid political commentary. Predictably, Hannity was railing [...]

Point of Information


Today is not St. Patrick’s Day. When March 17th falls during Holy Week, the Catholic church will move St. Patrick’s day. This year St. Patrick’s day was moved to March 15. Yes, it’s a personality flaw that I feel the need to point out things like this. No, I don’t believe anyone actually cares that [...]

No life.


So, I got this quiz on myspace that said if you had seen more than 75 movies in my life then you didn’t have a life. I had seen about 80 of the movies on the list. Then I started to make a list of all the movies had seen. Apparently I really have no [...]

Fun with telemarketers


It seems impossible to avoid getting calls from telemarketers. My phone number is on the do not call list. I don’t give out my phone number to any business that really doesn’t need it, yet I still end up getting between five and seven calls from telemarketers every night. My wife and I usually screen [...]

ipod annoyance


I think it’s desperation that leads me to write about such mundane topics, but I have a theory that if I just keep writing badly my muse will find me and put an end to end. So… I plugged in my iPod today and was greeted with a pleasant error message, “iTunes has detected an [...]